Feel like a little activism?

In regards to Michael Yon's Thanks and Praise. The photo and accompanying article are making the rounds on the internet, but where the photo really needs to be seen is in your local newspaper. I haven't seen anyone champion this yet, but according to Michael Yon's email regarding its use, they are welcome to use it anytime between November 8, 2007 and November 15, 2007 free of charge.

If you agree then here's what I propose we do. Email your local paper's news department (my area it's news@reporter-herald.com) and give them the link to the story -

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/thanks-and-praise.htm

Also, I'd recommend we give a little background. Yon is ex special forces and has been covering Iraq off and on since 2004 as an independent embedded reporter. They can get more on the man at his website, too.

There's an email link for them to contact who can set them up to use the story at the link.

Make sure to include the License Terms which you can cut from here.


License terms:

Michael Yon owns all rights, including copyright, in the photograph titled Thanks and Praise. He is authorizing one time nonexclusive use of it, for news purposes only, in print publications and in cable and television news broadcasts for a one week period between November 8, 2007 and November 15, 2007. He requires no compensation for this one time permission to reproduce, display and broadcast this photograph. He does require that his copyright notice remain on the photograph and that any use contain a prominent reference to his website [http://www.michaelyon-online.com/] Use of the photograph and caption in languages other than English must include the English language caption that accompanies the photograph on Michael Yon's website (http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/thanks-and-praise.htm). Email notification of the use, to include a link to any online use, should be sent to either of the email addresses below. Print uses must make a tear sheet available to Michael Yon upon request. To request high resolution copies of the photograph, or to provide notification of use, please email us here: jmason@bktc.com or michaelyon@tiac.net

Might not hurt to include the link to his Resistance is Futile post as that has information on how they can print more of his dispatches.